108 Vegetable Staticks. 



CHAP. III. 



Experiments, Jhewing the force of the fap 

 in the Vine in the bleeding feafon* 



HAVING in the firft chapter (hewn 

 many inflances of the great quanti- 

 ties imbibed and perfpired by trees, and in 

 the fecond chapter feen the force with 

 which they do imbibe moiflure -, I propofe 

 next to give an account of thofe Experi- 

 ments, which will prove with what great 

 force the fap of the Vine is pufhed forth, in 

 the bleeding feafon. 



Experiment XXXIV. 



March 30th at 3 p. m. I cut off a Vine 

 on a weftern afpect, within feven inches of 

 the ground \ the remaining Hump c (Fig. 17.) 

 had no lateral branches : It was 4 or 5 years 

 old, and | inch diameter. I fix'd to the top 

 of the flump, by means of the brafs collar 

 b y the glais tube b f 3 feven feet long, and 

 ^ inch diameter ; I fecured the joint b with 

 fliff cement made of melted Bees- wax and 

 Turpentine, and bound it fall over with fe- 

 veral folds of wet bladder and packthread : 



I then 



